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• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

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  Is Democracy Chinese?

  January 28 2012, 12:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

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  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Movie Set That Ate Itself

  Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast…

  October 28 2011, 10:30am | Comments

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  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

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  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

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  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books

  There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

  August 30 2011, 8:32am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris

  "The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us…

  August 9 2011, 4:39am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 5 2011, 10:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Tumblr The Objectuals

  July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Content For Users on the Move

  What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that…

  July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Being human

  Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this…

  June 25 2011, 8:55am | Comments

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• Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy

  It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

  January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Is Democracy Chinese?

  January 28 2012, 12:06pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

  January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments

• YouTube

  January 23 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky

  The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

  January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

  December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

  December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…

  Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

  November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects

  Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

  November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change..."

  “Any attempt to decipher nature and reveal its order requires certainty that the grid will not change in the course of the operation. There must be an assurance of regularity in the phenomena of nature… Otherwise there is no science. … [I]f a man…

  November 9 2011, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Scariest Zombies in Nature

  Once the fungus invades its victim’s body, it’s already too late. The invader spreads through the host in a matter of days. The victim, unaware of what is happening, becomes driven…

  October 29 2011, 4:45pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Movie Set That Ate Itself

  Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast…

  October 28 2011, 10:30am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

  October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Millions : "I would prefer not to" (Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall…

  I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had…

  October 16 2011, 11:38am | Comments

• Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…

  As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

  October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a person…

  September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Which one of you is Jesus?

  September 27 2011, 12:17am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) "What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put…

  “What is an enemy, who is he to us, and how must we deal with him? Another way to put it, for example, is: What is cancer? - a growing collection of malignant cells that we must at all costs expel, excise, reject? Or…

  September 14 2011, 5:01am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Reading Life - What We Do to Books

  There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have…

  August 30 2011, 8:32am | Comments

• Portfolio A Labyrinth (No Minotaur)

  August 26 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Inside the Internet Art Bubble

  The internet finally seems to have made a dint in New York's institutional art world. Cory Arcangel, an artist who began his career manipulating old computer technologies and critiquing web culture,…

  August 17 2011, 6:26am | Comments

• Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future

  What will the digital world look like in ten years?  The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path.  The explosion in the volume…

  August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris

  "The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us…

  August 9 2011, 4:39am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 5 2011, 10:00am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Tumblr The Objectuals

  July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments

• Portfolio Thoughts on art practice PhDs

  July 21 2011, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Content For Users on the Move

  What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that…

  July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Being human

  Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this…

  June 25 2011, 8:55am | Comments

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